Solanine:
In reply to StarlitSpider (msg # 9):
Oh, I agree. I'm 100% for that, I just meant it's unfortunate that two players couldn't share the same character name to post on, as far as rpol's functionality goes. An example of what I mean would be, like - Player A posts as Siam, Player B posts as Emerald, but both Player A and Player B have control of a third character, Citrine, for when they fuse. If that makes sense? It's a minor thing, easy enough to work around, but it would be a convenient feature to have for a game like this.
Pardon, I misunderstood. That makes more sense, and I'm curious to see if it's a possibility.
The idea of starting fresh sounds good- that's what I'm planning to do in the Transformers game I'm working out, and you really wouldn't have much to work with here, since the base material has a timeline revolving almost entirely around less than half a dozen characters.
That does bring up the question of how closely the reasons for that battle, stand, and stranding have to mirror those in the show. Maybe large swathes of the past could be left vague and nebulous until narration and character interaction establishes it? That would mirror the structure of the show, but more importantly, would that be an interesting (and effective) way to play?
I'm not sure how much sense it would make for the handful of gems stranded on earth for millenia to have not met until now-
if that's the scenario we go with. Just depends on the context.